Scarcity of information is a common frustration for historians. For students of 20th- and 21st century history, however, the opposite problem is also increasingly common — overwhelmed by a deluge of information, historians have begun to struggle with what is now understood as ‘big data’.
On Friday, September 30, 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., join Micki Kaufman, from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, for her presentation, Everything on Paper Will be Used Against Me: Quantifying Kissinger.
Kaufman will discuss how she is using digital research methods and data visualization techniques to study the Digital National Security Archive (DNSA)’s Kissinger Collections, which is comprised of 50,000 documents and includes approximately 18,000 meeting memoranda (‘memcons’) and teleconference transcripts (‘telcons’) detailing the former US National Security Advisor and Secretary of State’s correspondence during the period 1969-1977.
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This event is hosted by the Lewis and Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship located in Mills Library.
Micki Kaufman (MA CUNY, BA Columbia) is a fifth year Graduate Student Researcher in US history, Big Data, Visualization and Cultural Analytics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (GC-CUNY). Micki’s current PhD dissertation, “‘Everything on Paper Will Be Used Against Me:’ Quantifying Kissinger,” researches diplomatic history using network and text analyses/visualizations of the National Security Archive’s Kissinger Collection. Micki is a former GC-CUNY Digital Fellow, former Project Manager of the CUNY Academic Commons and DHDebates sites, a three-time winner of the GC-CUNY’s Provost’s Digital Innovation Grant, and the recipient of ADHO/ACH’s 2015 Lisa Lena and Paul Fortier Prizes.
